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Predicting water temperature in the Delaware River Basin: 5 Model prediction data

Metadata Updated: January 21, 2026

<p>Several models were used to improve water temperature prediction in the Delaware River Basin. <p>PRMS-SNTemp was used to predict daily temperatures at 456 stream reaches in the Delaware River Basin. Daily stream temperature predictions for inflow and outflow reaches for Cannonsville and Pepacton reservoirs were pulled aside into a separate csv to be used as inputs to the General Lake Model (GLM). Reservoir outflow predictions and in-reservoir temperature predictions were generated with calibrated models built using GLM v3.1. We calculated a decay rate based on the modeled reservoir outflow temperatures and observed downstream river temperature to estimate the decay of the reservoir influence on stream temperature as a function of distance downstream of a reservoir. These decay rates from Pepacton and Cannonsville were used to weight the predictions from GLM and PRMS-SNTemp on the East and West Branch of the Delaware River, respectively, to represent the mix of stream and reservoir processes that affect temperature dynamics. These weighted values were then used to pre-train the deep learning models that were used to forecast temperature. More details on these methods can be found in Zwart and others 2021. <p>Code that generated these results can be found in Zwart and others 2021 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5164910).

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Metadata Created Date January 11, 2026
Metadata Updated Date January 21, 2026

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Metadata Updated Date January 21, 2026
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